Just to add a bit to @dat-soldier 's awesome Dolvin Origin Comic- Joey took Dolvun for some bubble tea. A demon deserves to be happy and healthy ✨️
[Dolvun belongs to dat-soldier - Dolvun is the best guy ever!]
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Let’s say the mercenaries had a mission that required them to stay awake for the entire night. How would each of them handle it? (AKA: How do the mercs do when sleep-deprived?)
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this is in order of best handled, to worst handled
Sniper: as long as he has coffee and time to take a nap beforehand, he's good to go. it won't even bother him in the slightest, his sleep schedule is fucked anyway. but he can quickly get it back to normal enough
Spy: he's used to taking jobs that require him to get up and go whenever, and sometimes with little warning. he'd be tied with Sniper, however he can't stop himself from complaining about it under his breath regardless of how well he can handle it
Heavy: it won't bother him at all, he handles it with stride. though it becomes clear that the longer and longer the night drags on, the more and more stoic he seems. and it becomes clear that he's tired and probably getting grouchy but he's just not letting it show. he won't speak or listen to anyone, and the moment the mission is over he's pushing past everyone to get right to bed
Engineer: he's had plenty of nights where he's just stayed up the whole time to work on a project, and not realize how late it was until he realizes the sun is rising. the only problem for him is it definitely takes a toll on him after, and he's very sluggish and tired the whole next day
Soldier: he can handle the job very well, without complaint and without even seeming drowsy the whole time he's doing it. the issue is the moment it's over, he'll probably fall asleep on his feet while he's being briefed on how the mission went
Demoman: he thinks he can handle it fine, and he says he can every time with full confidence. but every time, he starts falling asleep on the job midway through it. constantly jolting back upright, forgetting conversations while they're happening, and eventually just forgetting the whole mission entirely
Medic: he's been working on a formula to prevent the need for sleep, temporarily of course. only for nights he really wants to stay up and work (which is most nights). so he handles it quite well, the only reason he's not at the top is because he only handles it well until he doesn't. and when he doesn't, he doesn't. he's cranky, and that's about to be everyone else's problem
Pyro: they simply can't stay up overnight. at some point, they're gonna fall asleep on the job and there's nothing that can be done to stop it from happening
Scout: not a chance does this end well. the best outcome is he just falls asleep on the job, and someone else just takes over for him. the worst outcome is he can't. he does not handle being sleep deprived well, and becomes extremely cranky and easily agitated. they only tried giving him a nightshift twice, he fell asleep the first time and so they tried giving it to him again and that's when they were introduced to what Scout Without Sleep was like and decided never again
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I just think Mirrorwatch would be more interesting if it was a non-canon story where Lena's chronal accelerator malfunctions and puts them in a different timeline. (Though I hate the idea of multiple universes, timelines, and all that, but again, it's not like it would be canon.)
Obviously, we don't know if there will be a Mirrorwatch comic or anything, but as of right now, it sounds like our favorite characters are just, well, mirrored. There's nothing interesting going on as far as character dynamics go.
Imagine a short comic where Lena finds herself at Watchpoint: Gibraltar, except all her friends are now villains, from the Commander Morrison to even Winston. Talon Winston and Talon Mercy would want to capture Tracer to experiment on them, but Overwatch comes in to save the day. Then, Lena has to work with them (even Widowmaker!) to steal technology from the Talon-ified Watchpoint: Gibraltar that could get her back home.
Then, after the event ends, it's revealed in a second VERY short comic that it was all just a bad dream. Lena wakes up in a panic beside Emily, and Emily comforts her as they both drift back to sleep. The end.
Am I saying all this because I'm salty over the existence of Talon Tracer and the fact that Soldier: 76 and the Reaper guy were seemingly ignored? Well, yeah, that's part of it, but hear me out--
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AU where Iroh is given a choice by an ancient spirit to bring his son back from the grave in exchange for his nephews life.
The first time he has the dream is mere days after Lu Ten died. The spirit never shows his face, and with the logic of a dreamer, Iroh never questions it. The spirit asks him to trade the life of his nephew, little more than a fond memory after the long years away, for his only child. Of course he says yes.
He doesn't think about the dream. A grieving mind does strange things. He goes home to find his father dead and his brother's wife gone, the throne in Ozai's hands, the world turned upside down, and everything dark and gloomy as he feels. That night, he has the dream again. He begs the spirit for his son back, whatever it takes. He sees Zuko's fear and pain as death comes, and for a few moments of dream, Lu Ten is in is arms, a child Zuko's age. He wakes in the middle of the night with tears on his face.
The next morning, his nephew knocks on his door, and he turns him away.
The dream plagues him. It comes back again and again. He always says yes.
It comes the night Zuko is banished. Iroh sits by his bedside as he shivers and cries out in fever and pain, and doesn't know if Zuko will wake. He seems so terribly small. When he falls asleep at his post, he dreams, and the spirit asks him. Iroh can barely speak, he is so angry. Why does the spirit ask this? Zuko may be dying, why would he put his life in Iroh's hands? The spirit laughs. Isn't Zuko's life already in Iroh's hands? Iroh sees the spirit's face for the first time. It's Ozai's.
The dream comes back again and again, every time Zuko is particularly difficult to deal with, every time one more potential lead on the Avatar turns out to be nothing. Iroh has the dream every night. He doesn't always tell the spirit no.
When he tells the spirit yes, he gets Lu Ten back, sometimes as a child, sometimes as he was just before riding off to battle. The spirit keeps his bargain. Zuko dies.
When he tells the spirit no, Zuko only spits in his face.
Then they find the Avatar. Zuko throws himself into danger. And worse, he's fighting against what is right, against what the world needs. And Lu Ten died fighting for that same cause. That night, Iroh sees the spirit's face again. It's the young Avatar's.
Zhao captures the Avatar. Zuko goes to steal him. Iroh tosses and turns, and finally sleeps. The spirit comes to ask his question, and Iroh lunges for him. His hood falls away, and his face is Zuko's own.
It's been three long years since Zuko was banished, and Iroh's niece comes to take them both prisoner. Iroh stops her from killing her brother with lightning. The spirit wears her face that night.
They sneak into Ba Sing Se. The spirit wears the face of an Earth Kingdom Soldier. Zuko fights off another teenage boy, Jet. The spirit wears Jet's face that night.
Zuko joins his sister beneath Ba Sing Se. Iroh sleeps in his cell and screams at the spirit to leave him be. The spirit laughs at him. It has his own voice.
It never matters which he chooses. He still wakes to a world with Lu Ten dead and Zuko alive.
It matters so much which he chooses. Why should he be forced to choose? How can he?
He goes back to Ba Sing Se. His nephew rules wisely and well, as he cannot. The world is at peace. Lu Ten was part of the old world, the world people like Ukano want to bring back. Knowing that he died fighing for what Iroh taught him to fight for, and that it was wrong hurts. It hurts more than Iroh knows what to do with.
When he dreams of the spirit now, he gives it no answer. Eventually it stops asking.
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Nana is a stress baker.
During the build up to the war and in the aftermath, she bakes nearly everyday (in between helping out, ofc)
The guard towers were stacked with trays of various baked goods.
Aphmaus kitchen was taken over by porcelain dishes of cookies and red velvet cakes.
Dante, Katelyn and Aph are stress-eaters, so they would having meetings and debriefs over cake + tea.
The armies in the Phoenix alliance went home with crates full of sweets.
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